Category 19 Super-GM tournament in Baden-Baden

1/4/2013 – In 1870 the first really strong chess tournament was held in Baden-Baden – with Anderssen, Steinitz, Blackburne, Paulsen, Winawer, etc. In the course of a century many fine tournaments were held in the German spa town. This year there will be a very strong six-player event, led by the World Champion Vishwanathan Anand and the World number five Fabiano Caruana. Press release.

Press release

GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden

Category 19 GM tournament: February 7th–17th 2013

For the time ever, the Chess Center Baden-Baden (Schachzentrum Baden-Baden)
will host a category 19 GM tournament, the GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden.
This event will follow the tradition of great chess tournaments that the well-known
southern German Spa town has established over the last two centuries.

Baden-Baden is also known in the chess world as the hometown of OSG Baden-Baden,
the most successful German club in the 1990 and 2000s. In the same period we
started the Chess Center Baden-Baden, to lay further foundations for establishing
Baden-Baden as an important center of the European chess community.

The main event of our chess weeks will be the GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden,
a super-tournament which will give the the three top German players the chance
to face three established world class players on their own soil.

As partners of the GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden, we gained the Grenkeleasing
AG, the German Chess Federation, and Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa.

The participants in the double round robin will be:

Viswanathan Anand

India

World Champion

43 years

Fabiano Caruana

Italy

No. 5 in the world

20 years

Michael Adams

England

No. 23 in the world

41 years

Arkadij Naiditsch

Germany

No. 37 in the world

27 years

Daniel Fridman

Germany

No. 78 in the world

36 years

Georg Meier

Germany

No. 108 in the world

25 years

World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India, rated 2772

GM Fabiano Caruana of Italy, rated 2781

GM Michael Adams of England, rated 2725

GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany, rated 2708

GM Daniel Fridman of Germany, rated 2667

GM Georg Meier of Germany, rated 2645

The tournament is scheduled from February 7th to 17th 2013. The venue will
be the historical halls of Kulturhaus LA8 (House of Culture) in the center of
Baden-Baden. The games will start daily at 3 p.m., in the last round at 1 p.m.

To complement the main event, several side tournaments – each limited
to 80 players – will take place:

See also

2/7/2013 – This tournament, with six players and an average rating of 2714, started in the famous German spa city, where in 1870 the world's first really strong chess tournament was held – and where counting draws for the final results made its debut in tournament play (read our report). The current event started with Fabiano Caruana drawing first blood with a win over German GM Georg Meier. Round one report.Discuss

1/14/2013 – Put this on your calendar: from March 14 to April 1st the candidates tournament will be staged in London. The eight participants, headed by Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, and Teimour Radjabov, will play a double round robin to determine the challenger for the World Championship title, currently held by Viswanathan Anand. The venue is quite spectacular. Press release.Discuss

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